Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

bg4.me

URL Shortener - Short URLs & Custom Free Link Shortener | Bitly

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

778 ms

Page Rendered

552 ms

bg4.me screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bg4.me page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bg4.me performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,190 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.727

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bg4.me

48 ms

bitly.com

16 ms

bitly.com

188 ms

1709847777-css1864aa7f3ba2fe1651c2b5fcb25a0df70bf6b39d57c92550b6358e08ec444.css

28 ms

jquery.min.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bg4.me, 79% (41 requests) were made to Docrdsfx76ssb.cloudfront.net and 10% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (528 ms) relates to the external source Js-eu1.hs-scripts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

620.3 kB

After Optimization

518.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Bg4.me main page is 620.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 396.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 16.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 59.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 396.1 kB
  • After minification 357.3 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Bg 4 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 101.5 kB
  • After minification 101.5 kB
  • After compression 99.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 45.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Bg4.me has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (39%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bg 4. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bg4.me accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bg4.me best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bg4.me SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bg4.me can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Bg4.me main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bg 4. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: